Langley 2007

Port Orchard Rendezvous a HUGE Success!

A record breaking 21 boats joined us for a fabulous rendezvous September 7-9, 2007 at the Port of Bremerton Marina in Port Orchard. Al and I were the busy cruise captains for this event. All of our planning paid off as everyone had a great time under beautiful sunny skies.

Somego arrived in Port Orchard just before noon on Friday. The marina saved plenty of slips for us as I had kept them updated on our sign-ups. Al spent Friday afternoon assigning slips and assisting in docking 16 of our boats. We gave each boat a specially prepared packet which included:

1. Copy of the schedule for the weekend, including a list of all participating boats
2. 3 page Photo Scavenger Hunt game details
3. Certificate of Participation in this historic event
4. NYCE Galley page encouraging the contribution of a recipe to be published on the website
5. 2 tickets to Sunday breakfast at The MorningSide Bread & Pastry Company

At 1800 we gathered on the East Breakwater in front of Moseying Around for our Tiddly Time. There were some delicious recipes there, but the best one I heard went like this:

1. Get in your car and drive to Costco
2. Purchase something that looks great
3. Place item in one of your own dishes
4. Serve at pot luck and take the compliments

The other 5 boats arrived on Saturday morning. Most people spent the day at the local market (I saw quite a few fresh flower bouquets on their way back to their boats), antique shopping, and of course doing their best to locate all the bits of photos on our fun scavenger hunt. I admit, it was challenging. The completed answers were due to be turned in by 4pm to Kathy or Al.
I prepared spaghetti in 2 large pots for the evening's pot luck meal. It was wonderful with all the great food contributed by everyone. Because of the prevailing winds dampening the breakwater, we moved the tables in front of Somego which provided a good wind break, and gave us an excellent platform to present awards for the day's activities. (I'm missing my notes here so this will be updated when I find them) soooo... to my recollection, there was a tie for 1st place between Tillicum and CaRico, with Last Mango a close second, and Luka 3rd.

Everyone seemed to enjoy moseying on over to the bakery whenever they got up for breakfast. We stopped by before we left to pay the final bill. Everyone took off after breakfast and by 10am there were only a couple of us left.

This was our first time as cruise captains and we thoroughly enjoyed doing it. Everything went very well (as far as we could tell) and our record number of boaters had an enjoyable and memorable weekend.

Now...... we've got some ideas for next year.

Kathy Felker
Webmaster
NYCEinfo.org

Reasons for Not Attending a Rendezvous

Attending club rendezvous is probably the best way to get to know your fellow boaters and to begin to feel like "one of the gang". Al & I have been members of NYCE for less than a year (October 2006). It seems like longer as we feel we have made so many friends in the club.

That said, we will be hosting our first rendezvous September 7-9 at Port Orchard. We are excited about all the fun times we are planning. At the recent Ice Cream Social, held on the Party Dock at Navy Base Everett, we accosted people about their expected participation in the upcoming Port Orchard rendezvous. Much to our consternation, there were many excuses for not attending. This is just a sampling..... (names have been withheld to protect the innocent).

1. I'll be in Hawaii on business
2. Cruising to Canada on their boat
3. Been to Port Orchard recently
4. Will be attending a Wooden Boat Show in Port Townsend
5. Will be cruising on a BIG cruise ship
6. There is a competing rendezvous that date
7. Have their car entered in a car show that weekend

It is good to see that we are all such busy people and that boating is just one of the activities that we enjoy. I am glad that we can all get together as often as we do. Even so, I do hope we will have a good turn out at Port Orchard because I am planning SUCH a fun time :-)

Kathy Felker

Webmaster

NYCEinfo.org

NYCE August Get-Togethers

We attended the August rendezvous in Bell Harbor, downtown Seattle, on August 10-12. It was a great time and we had a record turn out of boats to fill C Dock at Bell Harbor Marina. It was a wonderful event with time to visit Pike Place Market, celebrating it's 100th Anniversary, and great food prepared by Sharilyn Howell, cruise captain. She prepared Frogmore Stew which has to be seen to be understood. (If someone has a photo they can send me of this, I'd appreciate it).

One of our members who rarely misses a rendezvous, claims to have attended by virtue of being near enough to see his fellow boaters. He also claims to have brought the largest boat. See photos.

Bell Harbor has some very nice facilities and is always open for visiting boaters as there is no permanent moorage here. Al & I think we will definately be back here again.

Kathy Felker

Webmaster

NYCEinfo.org

Major Website Change --- Please READ

Hopefully you have been reading the posted info about upcoming changes to the website navigation tabs. As of today I have removed the redundant tabs in the main navigation bar.

Don't panic... Everything is still there! Check out the MEMBERS ONLY tab which now contains the former pages as follows:

2007 Club Calendar
2007 Cruise Schedule
Newsletters
Reciprocals

Membership list (from the About the Club page)

This will allow more flexibility in adding items of interest to members and will give you one tab to find most things you will be looking for.

As always, I welcome your comments.

Kathy Felker
Webmaster
NYCEinfo.org